Witness Peter Weis, vice president and CIO of Matson Navigation. He has 25 years of IT and business experience, specializing in transportation, logistics and supply chain management. He earned an undergraduate degree in business from Berkeley and an MBA from Wharton. He started out in applications development and got his first management gig at 26. After his biggest assignment--six years as CIO of APL Logistics where executives "demanded transformation on impossible deadlines"--he figured he'd seen and done it in all in corporate IT and switched to product development at a software-as-a-service start-up. So when the president of Matson approached him to transform the company's IT from a back-office service provider into a business partner, Weis balked. "I wasn't convinced they were serious about driving change," he says